The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 1, 1902, Page 14

The Way Roual d the Question. Poppe br . v o b eons 5 w s s ’ those who ul- tr ’ wiv It was " palace Danis v o } w e t v t we c t whic mper 1 Crowa ¥ Princess royal ( ick). The two b rest of a r er® tak over gave T ng ple gift, and whi 1 HEN oceurs in St. Peters- \ Y % t citizen doesn’t VAV 2 red box and ring in an advanced tricit most primitive in ire alarm th In fact, the it. One at fire t know e burns up he no- to do so. ytime he runs on the the night he tead of the up outside It balls. indicates r lante the 1 the firemen turn this method is not productive the fi m an hour e oceurs ¢ speed in reachir quite near an The result is that the citizens of St. Pe- try to do most of the fire extin- Ives and as there is no order a1 cipline the wildest confu- sion usuaily prevails. At every hint of a $re. no matter how slight, the neighbors begin at once to strip their homes of JNRES e RN & "vr'//(",q RSk WHERE IS THE OWNER OF Suitors May. a visit for a few e Duchess of Fife near the park Royal Highness g down Sheen lane, and it was in the sion that he put and won the heart of Princess cess went of to his sister, t n Hous t Shee day ¥ n stroll Lodge 1 that m ant question li-import M of Louise, the uis how the to Princess than describin proposed one better quot Queen nal of Life in een wrote ntful day. Our dear 7 uged to Lord Lorne. The event took place during a walk from it Shiel to Loch Dhu. We got aise, who returned some had spok: rome me that Lc en to her ard prop d to accepted him, knowing ve time after, tol devotior that she had 1 should ap: his her It was in the same e, i. e., Rosen- ie seat of the nish royal family, | Britain’s King proposed to the ghter of the Sea Ki that the present Czar asked Princess Alix of Hesse in 189 to be his wife. He had made up his mind long that if ried it would be | her than one com- for upon Prine arty was arranged at Rosen- Nicholas to meet this royal unts differ regarding the actual e the proposal took place. Some Czar proposed during an evening others that he did so in the gar- the palace while out for a round ss. The latter ac- nerally regarded as < o bBU»G. hing of value. The police make no attempt to establish fire lines, so the mob hampers the firemen rather than helps them. But all this is nothing beside the excite- ment of the progress of the engine or en- gines—there are s nty-four pieces of apr and 1027 firemen in the city— to t In snowtime the engine travel on runners instead of wheels. Be- side the driver sits a man ringing a big bell to warn other vehicles to keep out of the way. v fire. After the engine five tenders follow, after another. One carries the nose, another a water tank. Then come three more all filled with firemen. In the last century Russia has lost property to the amount of $15,000,000,000 by fire. The loss averages $150,000,000 a year. one ————— Magistrate (to new policeman)—Did you notice no suspicious character about the neighborhood ? New policeman—Shure, yer honor, I saw but one man an’ I asked him what he was doing there at that time o’ night. Sez he, *“I have no business here just now, but I expect to open a jewelry sthore in the vicinity later on.” At that I says, “I wish you success, sor.” Magistrage (disgusted)—Yes, and he did open a jewelry store in the vicinity later on and stole seventeen watches. New policeman (after a pause)—Begorra, ver honor, the man may have been a thafe, but he was no liar. record | Victoria in | THE HORSE? ERE is another series of six (_l[ puzzle pictures, all of them just as interesting as those that have been appearing for the last | few weeks cn this page. Just try one of them, and if you succeed in solving it why it is safe to predict | that you will not rest easy until you have studied out the rest. There is a certain fascination in the game and | if your time is limited it would be | well to just tear this page out and put it in your pocket for future referenc | for the time when you have your easy cliair in front of the fire and the| et THE MATADOR IS PREPARING TO THRUST. WHERE IS THE BULL? READY FOR MORE FUN WITH THE PUZZLES. zle out the puzzles. They are by 10 means as simple as they may ap- pear at first glance, and yet your American sticKtoitiveness will not permit you to give them up after you have once begun. Take the first one of this set as a key to the rest and let us see how the play goes. The ques- tion is to find “Uncle William”—quit, casy when you know just where to look. Turn the picture so that the left-kand side becomes the base and you will see “Uncle William” just as plain as day in the lower center, formed by the wall. Now that you avening before you in which to puz- Lewss T 3:\,.'\25 msn who poxed J.P TToROANS eofs | have an idea how it is done, try the He Boxed ). Pierpont MorGan’s Ears. HILE he is enjoying more or less fame just now, the man who boxed J. Pierpont Mc gan's ears is not the stern in- dividual such a performance would lead one to believe. There is noth- Ing in his make-up, as one views him out- ‘wardly, that indicates hasty temper or humor. Indeed, the impr ion his p sonality gives is one of kindliness and ur- banity. As he sat in his revolving chair In the office of the What Cheer and Mu- tual Life Insurance companies at Provi- dence, R. I, of which he is president, Lewis T. Downes seemed the embodiment of good nature. “Am T the man who boxed J. Pierpont Morgan's ears when he was a boy?’ fe asked, repeating the gnestion. ‘“Well, 1 rest of them for yourself. It you can’t see them give the page to the chil- dren, and it is ten chances to one that they will be able to find the missing pictures in about one-third the time that you have spent on them. Thers is lots of fun to be had from the sport | even if it is exasperating at times— especially so when you have spent an | hour on one without solving it and | then turn it over to see what your| | friend can do and find that he gets | the answer right away. In that case try him on some of those that seemeil easy to you and it is more than likely Le will have to call for help. must be truthfu he continued, “and admit [ am the man. “I think it was in 1353, he went on. at this little affair occurred. I was or; t at Christ Church in Hart- the ford. We were holding an afternoon serv- ice, and as I was running over the keys I| noticed a slight disturbance in the gal- lery. The offenders, I quickly discovered, were two lads who were endeavoring to; make tlie girls from Miss Draper’s board- | ing school laugh. I shook my head at the voungsters, but that had no quieting ef- fect. The boys continued their ‘monkey | ines,’ and then I decided to adopt dras- | tic measures. “I left the choir loft, went over to the pew in which the two young disturbers sat dnd separated them by putting one at either end. Belleving I had suppressed | them, I returned to the organ, but as I was_about to touch the keys I turned my head and there were the two youns- ether again, indulging in even more tricks. “It dian't take me long to reach them. I gave both a s each by the ear of led them out church. That ended the trouble. “Those boys_were J. Plerpont Morgan | and Clarence Sterry. You know who Mr. | Morgan. is, but perhaps you do not know | that Mr. Sterry is one of Hartford’s | prominent insurance men’ of to-day. That is all there is to this story about my box- ing _young Morgan's ear: ‘While Mr. Downes has been a wide- awake business man, he has been a de- voted and accomplished musician. He was graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, in 1848, but he had begun his career as an organist eight years before. “Igovs both » sound cuifing ond. teleng egeh brthe cer led thom 5y of e hureh PRECSERN = si mple and SQPQ Tests on Precicls Stones- NY one. can tell a genuine diamond or precious stone even from a very clever imitation. There are a few household tests which are practi- infallible. The diamond expert, cally after long years of experience with gems, can detect an imitation, as a rule, at a glance. The layman in guch matters, with a few simple tests, takes more time to solve such, problems, but his judgment in the end is scarcely less accurate. An imitation diamond is never so bril- liant as a genuine stone. If your eye Is not experienced enough to detect the dif- ference, a very simple test is to place the stone under water. The imitation stone is practically extinguished, while a genuine diamond sparkles even under water and is distinctly visible. When possible, place a genuine stone beside the possible imita- tion under water and the contrast will be apparent to the least experienced eye. The glass cutting test is, of course, more or less familiar. It is probably the most common. False diamonds are usually cut more regularly than the genuine stones. In cutting a diamond the material is saved as far as possible. In an imitation the material is itself worthless and no at- tempt is made to suit the size or angle of the facets to the form of the stone. It can be put down as a safe rule that when a stone is cut with great evenness and regularity it is, to say the least, a very suspicious sign. Another very simple and effective test is to place a drop of water on the stone and carefully 'observe the result. The | stone should first be very carefully clean- ed. On an imitation diamond the drop, however small, will deliquesce. The drop will, however, retain its original shape on a true stone. To make the test quite sure, L e O e e e o S BCeenmri¢ Reperts MONG the oddities of the pension business are eccentric reports made to the bureau by physicians who have examined applicants. One such medical report says: “The claimant alleges loss of memory; but, as we could not take it out and examine it, we have nothing to say—only his state- ment, which we rate nil.” In another case: ‘“Claimant cannot read without glasses very much. He never could read much. He never learned.” Another: “I find a scar on this man's foot at the june- tion of the sole with the upper.” Yet an- other: “In the center was also =een a large red lump as large as a small hen's egg—or rather a small egg, be the hen herself of dimensions stately or 6ther- wise.” From the Pension Office, by some in- advertence, was sent out the following: “The claimant above named is required to flle his sworn statement showing when, where and how he contracted senile de- bility; that such disability was not due to vicious habits, and is to the best of his knowledge and belief of a permanent character.” Claimant’s answer: “My age is 70. I cannot say precisely when and where I contracted senile debility. It has come on quite gradually. I seemed free from it en- tirely at my birth; yet, if I had not been born so far back as I was, I am sure I ‘would not be suffering from it so severely as now. The most eminent authorities are agreed that old age is of a permanent character, and I begin to feel certain use a magnifying glass when watching the action of the drop. Still another test of this nature is to pass the stone over a piece of aluminum. Both the metal and the one should be absolutely free from any trace of grease. The metal will give off some of its color to an imitation stone, while a genuine dlamond will remain perfectly clear and unaffected. Among jewelers the final test is to apply a drop of fluorhydricacid tothe stone under suspicion. The acid will eat irfo any false diamond and frost it, while the genuine stone will not be damaged in the slightest degree. Perhaps the simplest method of all, however, is to examine an Ink spot on a sheet of white paper through a dlamond, by holding the upper surface against the eye. If the stone be counterfeit, the black spot will appear greatly multiplied, or at least doubled. The outline will, moreover, appear blurred and indistinct. By using & magnifying glass the test can readily be made absolute. The optical test'is the best in examin- ing rubles and emeralds. It is commonly supposed that such stomes can be best tested by rubbing them with a flle, that the genuine stones resist the steel, while the imitation only will suffer; but the test is not exhaustive. The best plan i to examine them closely with a micro- scope of about 100 dlameters. The gen- uine stones have a number of minute flaws, whereas the imitations are likely to be much more nearly perfect in tex- ture. The imitation ruby is filled with minute air bubbles, which are not to be found in the genuine stones. The color of the imi- tation As sometimes even purer and more even than the real stomes. As ar yellowish tinge is considered st tiny flaws, treelike or dendritic i cauad n Persicon Offige. ounger are nile de- that my chances of becor exceedingly slim. In my case s bility is not due to vicious habits; yet I have a habit of getting older each day.” Disbursing such an enormous amount of money as it does annually, it would be surprising if the Pension Office were not beset by swindlers. Undoubtedly thou- sands of pensions obtained on fraudulent grounds are now being paid yet the percentage of uncerta matters terfully smail, the extreme pains taken to inv claims. All over the torneys are constan ple who may be suppesed to be entitled t allowances; an though they not permitted to exact more than $10 as a fee in each case, they have various ways of evading the law in this respect. of silk dresses and carriages have been solicited for wives and daughters, ar one lawyer actually induced a claimant's wife to bake a cake with $400 in it and present it as a Christmas complimer’.— Christian Endeavor World. —_———————— ‘“Wherein lies the difference photography and courtship?” softly. “I dom't know,” she replied. “In photography,” he explained, “the negative is developed in the dark room, while courtship is where the affirmative is_developed.” She blushed but made no answer. “Let us,” he suggested, “proceed to de- velop an affirmative.” . There being no objection, it was so or- dered.—Stray Stories. wo! is tigate all hark ¥y in pursuit of peo- at- count: are between he asked